Is it possible with the hue plugin for indigo to start a scene stored on the Hue Bridge?

Domoticz can do the follwoing:"You can create scenes with a third party application like Hue Pro that is able to store the scene on the bridge.For example you could create a scene 'Romantic' with a nice color and with all the lights you want in this scene.Domoticz will detect all scenes from the hue bridge, and add them as push-on switches in the systemAfter this, it is very easy to activate the scene or use the scene in timers."

No. Not yet. I do plan on adding this feature, though. I'm not sure about a timeline, but the underlying code needed to implement this was included in a patch release of the plugin a few patch versions ago.

I have multiple scenes created in Lightbow, and am allowed to choose Lightbow in the Scene creator dropdown menu. However there are no scenes to choose from in the Scene dropdown menu. Oddly enough the only choice that brings up scenes to choose from, is the native Hue scenes that ship with the app, and they are only available when selecting "Hue 2 app" on an old iPhone that is no longer in use.

The Hue scenes thing is actually pretty confusing and I almost didn't add the feature just because of that. So, here are some things to consider.

Lightbow doesn't save it's "Presets" to the Hue hub/bridge. This is similar to how the Hue Lights plugin has a separate "Preset" feature which is only stored in the plugin preferences, not the Hue bridge. Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to get Lightbow settings saved into the Hue bridge. You might ask the developer that question.

The original Hue app created "Scenes" that it saved on the Hue bridge. Each iOS or Android device with the Hue app on it could create Scenes on the bridge. Those Scenes could easily be recalled from the app. But in order to add HomeKit support for iOS devices, Philips needed to completely rewrite the Scenes feature. So now there are 2 kinds of Scenes (both still confusingly called "Scenes"). The first and easiest to access "Scene" is in the Settings on the Hue app under "HomeKit & Siri". Those are actually HomeKit Scenes, not Hue scenes. So anything you see in there won't appear in the list of scenes stored on the Hue bridge. The original Hue "Scenes" are now hidden away as a lighting option for each room in "Home" area of the Hue app. Touch any room in the list then touch "Scenes" at the top. These are not HomeKit Scenes but Hue Scenes. You can add new Scenes (which will show up in the Hue Lights plugin) by touching the "+" at the bottom right of the Scenes list then creating your own Hue Scene which will apply to just the lights in that room.

The reasons your new iOS device doesn't appear in the list of Scene Creators in the Hue Lights plugin is because you probably restored all of your apps (including the Hue app) that were on your old iOS device onto your new one. The way the Hue bridge identifies "Scene Creators" is by a unique string of random characters it assigns to your Hue app the first time you pair the app with the Hue bridge (by tapping the center button on the Hue bridge when the app tells you to). The app caries this unique ID with it when it's backed up and restored, so even if you have to pair the app to the bridge again after an iPhone upgrade, the app tells the Hue bridge to identify it by the same old unique ID it originally had. Thus, the "Scene Creator" still shows up on the Hue bridge as the original app and iOS device.

By the way, if you make changes to a Hue Scene in the Hue app (which get saved to the Hue bridge), be sure to choose the "Reload Hue Hub Config" from the Plugins -> Hue Lights menu, otherwise the Hue Lights plugin won't recognize the changes.

Presets in the Hue Lights plugin are individual light setting presets and can't be used to remember multiple sets of light settings in one Preset. You could create a Hue group (using the Lightbow app) and then apply a Preset to the entire group, but if you wanted different lights in the group to be a different settings, that wouldn't work. If setting up Scenes in the Hue app for an individual room doesn't fulfill your needs, you could create an Action Group in Indigo with multiple actions that set up each Hue light or group when the Action Group is executed.

I'm just starting to explore recalling Hue scenes. We have three iPhones and two tablets; the iPhones have each gone through several upgrades in both software and hardware. I have two Hue apps on my phone: OnSwitch and Hue (official app). I see 19 scene creators and about 60 scenes, many of which are repeated. (I hate this, but think I understand why it is - sounds like the Hue Bridge just keeps saving stuff forever.)

Anyway, my problem is that while I can execute a scene from the plugins > Hue Lights > Recall Scenes menu, I get errors trying to save the same scene as an action group.

When I try and save my recalled scene, I see "Error validating fields. Hover over the red field labels above to see the error reason." There is nothing in red, however. The log file shows:Nov 15, 2017 at 9:05:30 AM Hue Lights Error Error in plugin execution UiAction:

Looks like the plugin isn't handling unicode special characters?The character unicode 2019 is a 'Right Single Quotation Mark'.The name "hue_ios_app app on BILL’s iPhone" contains that character.It may be a quick fix to temporarily rename it just to use standard characters (i.e remove the 'Right Single Quotation Mark' or change it to a standard quotation mark).

I have renamed my iPhone, turned it off then on again, exited and opened the Hue app - but I still don't see the new name Bill iPhone 6 in the list of scene creators. There must be some way to get my phone to talk to the Hue bridge with its new name, but I can't figure it out for the life of me!

To get rid of the extraneous info on the bridge, I did a reset and then had to reinstall every one of my Hue devices. Not fun. However, it seems like this was the only way.

Anyway, I DO have another question. I now see only two scene creators:

OnSwitch app on Bill iPhone 6hue_ios_app app on Bill iPhone 6

The Scene dropdown displays all the Hue app scenes correctly.However, the dropdown displays NO scenes for the OnSwitch app. (before the reset, I could see scenes associated with one or two of the five OnSwitch App scene creators I had)

I'm guessing that this means that OnSwitch is not loading its scenes into the bridge. Any thoughts on how to force it to do so? I'm using the OnSwitch app successfully to start scenes

Sorry for the trouble. That’s a lot of work. Resetting the Hue hub would have fixed the issue withiut the plugin update because your old iPhone name was causing the bug to be triggered (as you already knew) and the iPhone name was stored on the hub itself. So changing your iPhone name in the iPhone itself would have no effect (as you discovered).

As for why the OnSwitch app hasn’t re-uploaded the scenes, I’m not sure why. I don’t know how to force it either. The only guess I have to fix it is to try deleting a scene and recreating it on the OnSwitch app again to see if that causes it to recreate the scene on the hub. You might try just editing a scene in the app too, to see if that forces a re-sync.